Question:
Does anyone know of a source for drug test kits. I am loking for
a kit that will test the purity of Cocaine .
Answer:
Crack cocaine
Sometime in the early 1980s, probably in the Bahamas, it was discovered that
expensive reverse engineering was not necessary to make a smokable paste,
and in fact one could process cocaine with ammonia or sodium bicarbonate
(baking soda) and water, heating it to remove the hydrochloride, thus
producing a form of cocaine that can be smoked -- what has been since the
mid-1980s been known as "rock" or "crack" cocaine. Users originally began
mixing cocaine with ammonia to test the purity of their product. This
process removes the impurities from the cocaine and allows the user to
determine the amount of pure cocaine remaining. The term "crack" refers to
the crackling sound heard when the mixture is heated. No longer dependent on
high quality cocaine or an expensive chemical process, users now had an
extremely cheap form of smokable cocaine. This new drug process became
popular just after a coup in Bolivia flooded the world market with cheap
cocaine. Somewhat later, cocaine and heroin were heated together in the same
fashion; the resulting combination, known colloquially as "moonrock," caused
many deaths, particularly in and around Los Angeles
